{"id":17866,"date":"2009-09-03T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17866"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:30:53","slug":"section23-announces-new-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/section23-announces-new-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Section23 Announces New Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sxion23_november09-450x156.jpg\" alt=\"sxion23_november09\" title=\"sxion23_november09\" width=\"450\" height=\"156\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sxion23_november09-450x156.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sxion23_november09-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sxion23_november09.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Section23 Films has announced November release plans for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b-ch.com\/cgi-bin\/contents\/ttl\/det.cgi?ttl_c=1048\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Drop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbs.co.jp\/anime\/polyphonica\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphonica<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/special-a.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Special A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tearstotiara.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tears to Tiara<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbs.co.jp\/taiho\/\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;re Under Arrest Season 2 (2001)<\/a> anime television series along with the live action J-horror films Ki-Gai and Nu-Meri ~Book of the New Spawn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>You&#8217;re Under Arrest Season 2<\/strong> DVD collection 1 (of 2) will retail at $39.98 beginning November 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special A<\/strong> DVD collection 1 (of 2) will retail at $39.98 beginning November 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Drop<\/strong> &#038; <strong>Polyphonica<\/strong> complete DVD collections will retail at $39.98 each beginning November 17.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tears to Tiara<\/strong> DVD collection 1 (of 2)  will retail at $39.98 beginning November 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ki-Gai<\/strong> will retail at $19.98 beginning November 3. <strong>Nu-Meri<\/strong> will follow at $19.98 on November 10.<\/p>\n<p>Language options on these releases have not been officially specified. Presumably they will all be subtitled only.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/ask-john-will-blue-drop-candy-boy-reach-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">mused on the probability<\/a> of Blue Drop reaching America. Sentai Filmworks&#8217; acquisition of Special A is particularly interesting because it&#8217;s a show that was digitally distributed by Crunchyroll, and so far most of anime that have premiered on Crunchyroll then found homes with domestic DVD distributors have landed in FUNimation&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/press-release\/2009-09-02\/section23-films-announces-november-slate-of-anime-j-horror\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section23 Films has announced November release plans for the Blue Drop, Polyphonica, Special A, Tears to Tiara, and You&#8217;re Under Arrest Season 2 (2001) anime television series along with the live action J-horror films Ki-Gai and Nu-Meri ~Book of the New Spawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17868,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17866\/revisions\/17868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}